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Sharing Diffs on Dev.to?

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bennypowers profile image Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦 ・1 min read

Howdy,
I want to share a diff on Dev.to. How would you go about doing that?
I found a nice service called mergely, but I'm not sure if my shared diffs are writable by all, and anyways they can't be embeded. How would you share your diffs?

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Phil Nash •

You can share diffs using the regular code fences in markdown. Just start the code fence with: three backticks and then diff (I can't escape the backticks to show you 😖).

Then it will look something like this:

diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index da900f1..a5c96ce 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ GEM
       railties (>= 4.1.0, < 6.0)
       responders
       warden (~> 1.2.3)
-    devise-authy (1.10.0)
+    devise-authy (1.9.0)
       authy (>= 2.7.2)
       devise (>= 3.0.0)
     erubi (1.7.1)
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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦 Author •

That's awesome!

That will work great for simple diffs, but how would I share, say, a whole-file diff, ignoring whitespace?

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rhymes •

You could use gist:

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